Books
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The Book of Killowen Erin Hart Scribner $26 The fourth in Hart’s fine Nora Gavin series finds American pathologist Nora and her Irish lover archaeologist Cormac Maguire, called to Killowen Bog in County Tipperary. The corpse of [...]
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Two markedly disparate books, one a memoir, one a novel, explore in their fashions the theme of selfness, who one is in place and time, and what maps the perspectives one uses to chart one’s [...]
A Word In Edgewise: Closet of the Curiosities: Writing Micro Seminar I
After a reading of my novel, M-o-t-h-e-r Spells Murder, I was asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” There’s not really a formula, nor are ideas are pulled fresh minted from the author’s nether orifice, nor are [...]
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The Delilah Case Mickie Turk House of Myth Books $14.95; $4.95 Kindle Mixing New Orleans ambience, voodoo, and the soul loss and retrieval struggles of a brilliant but damaged woman, Turk serves up a gothic tale [...]
“Getting to Ellen”: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change
What are you willing to give up in order to become your most authentic self? Your amazing career? Your perfect marriage to your soul mate? Your financial success? While some may argue that a career, [...]
E.B. Boatner’s “M-O-T-H-E-R Spells Murder” Thrills and Intrigues
Lavender columnist E.B. Boatner has added another accomplishment to his long list of achievements with the recent publication of his first novel, M-O-T-H-E-R Spells Murder, a mystery novel that explores the devastating effects of scandal [...]
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When the Cookie Crumbles Virginia Lowell Berkeley Prime Crime $7.99 Cozy up with Virginia Lowell’s third Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery featuring Olivia Greyson, owner of Chatterly Heights’s The Gingerbread House, and her indefatigable best friend, Maddie. The [...]
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Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples Roger Streitmatter Beacon Press $26.95 Cultural historian Streitmatter demonstrates, through the lives of fifteen same-sex couples, that gays and lesbians have led not just ordinary, but extraordinary [...]
Land of 10,000 Stories: An Interview with Stewart Van Cleve
Stewart Van Cleve’s Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota offers a distillation of over 100 years of material on the state’s gay background. Van Cleve, former assistant curator of the Jean-Nikolaus Tretter Collection in [...]
Leather Life: Book Review: American Ecstasy by Barbara Nitke
Time: Sometime in the 1980s. Place: New York City (actually Queens). You are on a movie set at Adventure Studios, watching the filming of The Devil in Miss Jones, Part II. Next to you is the staff [...]
